Gust

MAY 11, 2014

Extend your networking. You need to enhance your business plan and marketing with all the benefits to your customers of the multiple “stimulus” plans and tax breaks now being put together, especially related to alternative energy products. Let’s face it, the business world and the political world are getting tightly intertwined.

Seed Money 164

Seed Money SBIR Dilution Government 164

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. Network to build investor relationships before you ask for money. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?

Early Stage 247

Early Stage Technical Review Elevator Pitch Due Diligence 247

Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2013

The bootcamp requested that participants do what entrepreneurs do before requesting seed funding – Discover, Network and Accelerate. (In The second phase, and heart of the program, was a three-month, part time bootcamp that would prepare idea champions for the internal funding battle that followed.

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Programming Design Lean Seed Money 291

Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2013

The bootcamp requested that participants do what entrepreneurs do before requesting seed funding – Discover, Network and Accelerate. (In The second phase, and heart of the program, was a three-month, part time bootcamp that would prepare idea champions for the internal funding battle that followed.

Programming 283

Programming Design Lean Seed Money 283

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. Network to build investor relationships before you ask for money. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?

Technical Review 233

Technical Review Elevator Pitch Due Diligence Angel Investor 233

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Company 2 might represent an “ad mediation company” where the company gets paid by ad networks for running ads on publisher websites and the company in turn must pay the publisher 85% of the revenue it collects. They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 An ad network (the middleman) might sell $500,000 in ads.

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Startup Revenue Technical Review Flash 418

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In return, you may be able to get your hands on some seed money for your college startup. Alternatively, there are organizations for student entrepreneurs for networking and startup cash injections. A college is an exciting place to network with like-minded peers and professors. These include: Young Entrepreneur Council.

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Seed Money Startup eCommerce .Net 91

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. It’s important to note that we’re looking for startups leveraging network effects in these new themes, because they are platform-agnostic after all. The fundraising environment is certainly tougher for later rounds.

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Technical Review Early Stage Portfolio Valuation 60

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2014

But he chose to move forward with a positive attitude, raise seed money for his company, and network his way to a profitable future. Expand your network. Your business network can be even more important to your success than the product or service you offer, so start networking now. Get a mentor.

Bootstrapping 249

Bootstrapping Startup Seed Money New York 249

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? The industry has made it very easy for companies to raise seed money through online marketplaces like Angel List, accelorators. Perhaps I need to rethink that.

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Venture Capital Marketing Term Sheet Software Review 114

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

Angel Networks. Angel investors provide everything that startups need — from funding, mentorship, professional advice, and access to investors in their network. You can search for angel networks by area and platform type. Professional Social Networking Sites. Some notable startup platforms include startups.co

Private Equity 159

Private Equity Startup Incubator Social Network 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. These days, every student has his social network of peers. Plug yourself into a new network of business people. Once you graduate, you can’t take that course you need, and even the advisors are gone.

Entrepreneur 264

Entrepreneur Seed Money Social Network Business Plan 264

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. These days, every student has his social network of peers. Plug yourself into a new network of business people. Once you graduate, you can’t take that course you need, and even the advisors are gone.

Entrepreneur 264

Entrepreneur Seed Money Social Network Business Plan 264

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

Make it a point to network as much as possible during the time you’re working for someone else. You Have Access to Seed Money. You’ll have to buy your own truck, purchase your own commercial insurance and may need money to tide you over as you seek your first clients.

Seed Money 92

Seed Money United States Revenue Hiring 92

YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2018

Even though you likely want to start working full-time at your new business right away, you might need to either stay at your day job or work a side job to help raise money for your business. Use your extra time to network, create your product, and market your business until it’s making enough money to sustain itself.

Seed Money 100

Seed Money Campaign Sales Cost 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. These days, every student has his social network of peers. Plug yourself into a new network of business people. Once you graduate, you can’t take that course you need, and even the advisors are gone.

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Seed Money Social Network Networking Business Plan 225

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). They risk money they can afford to lose. To me, this is the best time to raise your seed. Option Two: Post-Launch?—?Raise

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Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Early Stage Cofounder 20

Gust

JANUARY 13, 2013

Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. These days, every student has his social network of peers. Plug yourself into a new network of business people. Once you graduate, you can’t take that course you need, and even the advisors are gone.

Entrepreneur 180

Entrepreneur Seed Money Social Network Business Plan 180

The Next Web

JULY 27, 2013

Are traditional investors really that great when you can leverage your social networks for cash? He quit his job to fulfill his orders and imagined starting a great new business from the seed money. Sure you can raise your seed money on Kickstarter or another crowdfunding platform… then what?

Seed Money 130

Seed Money Massachusetts Equity Campaign 130

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

GEW offers both virtual and face-to-face activities, ranging from large-scale competitions to intimate networking gatherings. “There are no requirements to take part – anybody, anywhere can find a way to get involved in events that will change lives.”. A list of the activities during the week can be found here.

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Babbling VC

JUNE 10, 2010

Anyway, they passed on that, if I remember correctly turning their nose up at venture capital. :-) Yet, when Nils had launched Cellity, they came back to us to pitch this idea (together with Mangrove who had already injected seed money) and we eventually ended up investing shortly thereafter. Emporis This one is a bit of an outlier.

Software Review 64

Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Germany 64

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?

San Francisco 230

San Francisco Los Angeles Cofounder SMS 230

Up and Running

MAY 30, 2018

My first company, Digital-Tutors , grew from a startup in my living room with $54 of my own seed money into a multi-million-dollar business with customers around the world. I was proud of the fact that we never used any outside investment money to grow the company. Starting a business is easy.

Startup 107

Startup Seed Money Employee Conversion 107

Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

They ended up with a nice pitch, and approximately $300K in seed money.”. “They were invited separately, and each of the three sat for the pitch and commented on it. The three who agreed to do it had some semblance of a relationship with the founders beforehand.

Angel Investor 60

Angel Investor Software Review Technical Cofounder Due Diligence 60

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Company 2 might represent an “ad mediation company” where the company gets paid by ad networks for running ads on publisher websites and the company in turn must pay the publisher 85% of the revenue it collects. They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 million to fund operations in their first year of operations.

Stock Options 227

Stock Options Startup Dilution Venture Capital 227

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

But when your only capital is your hard-earned seed money, every penny that goes out will be scrutinized painfully. You can network to give and get referrals for other businesses. An inflated sense of financial well-being can result in sloppy budgeting and accounting as you write checks here and there without pause.

Sweat Equity 231

Sweat Equity Startup Angel Investor Seed Money 231

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

He is also the founder of Hallspot , a new social networking site exclusively for college students that has raised hundreds of thousands in seed money and will launch on September 27 at Thorne’s alma mater, where more than 6,000 students have pre-registered for the service.

Social Network 82

Social Network Oregon Programming Cofounder 82

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Literally, one week later we had secured seed money, established business roles, added on another partner, ran the numbers, and started a pest control company! In 2018 I continued to attend fewer networking events and make better choices of how to spend my time. We started talking, seriously about the idea.

South Korea 57

South Korea Entrepreneur Portugal Social Media 57

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

You want to establish a relationship here to gain access to their network at a later date. Crowd Funding: The Internet is at work here, especially for obtaining early stager seed money. They can also help you with an SBA (Small Business Administration) loan, if that path is correct for you.

Intellectual Property 76

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Small Business Administration SBA 76

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

.&# And I think this line of thinking has started to become conventional wisdom as outlined in Chris Dixon’s excellent blog post saying that you need to be careful raising seed money from a large VC fund. I do think you need to be careful with funds that have done 20-30 seeds deals in fairly rapid succession.

Software Review 283

Software Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Southern California 283

cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

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Stealth 68

Stealth Startup NDA Cofounder 68

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

And Apple is famous for taking existing ideas (wireless networks, media creation, mice, mp3 players, smartphones) and doing them really, really well. While it’s true that you sometimes need to spend money to make money, the amount of money you need to spend is where things get murkier. Web search existed before Google.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Startup Seattle Social Media 69

Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

The students concluded that the context around a venture matters tremendously - that smart phones, the explosion of apps and social networking all were important enablers that allowed foursquare to succeed at this particular moment in time. Modest burn : the company only raised $1.35 Advertising isn't cool."). Vision/Becoming a platform.

API 44

API Valuation Lean Burn Rate 44

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

They’re looking for guidance on building the company, the ability to tap into a VC’s network, and help with potential business opportunities. First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital. You've seen how venture capital works from both sides--as an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist.

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 21, 2012

So he added more criteria, including the amount of equity an accelerator takes and the size of its alumni network. They offer seed money and mentoring in exchange for equity, normally about 7%. “A good chunk of accelerators did not register on any of the criteria,” Gilani says. And those programs have done very well.”.

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Startup Houston Equity Seed Money 167

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Seed money gets invested on something that shouldn’t be in use, rather than something provided by an off-the-shelf framework which won’t tie the business to a particular agency. We’ve written previously on the other technical challenges start-ups will face when working with agencies or developers.

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Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I plan to use the internet as my networking base, and friends as my streettalkers. I plan to use the internet as my networking base, and friends as my streettalkers. Startups that are aiming to enterprises would do right raising VC to improve their network and therefore have a greater chance to get customers. Anti Matter lol.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84